In The Silent Sister, Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over 20 years later, her father has passed away and she’s in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now? As Riley works to uncover the truth, her discoveries will put into question everything she thought she knew about her family. Riley must decide what the past means for her present, and what she will do with her newfound reality, in this engrossing mystery from international best-selling author Diane Chamberlain.
Predictable and poorly written I generally live by the rule of “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all,” but in this case I will make an exception. Perhaps the Silent Sister struck me as so poorly written because I had just completed the Outlander Series, which I loved. My biggest issue with this book was how the author used stereotypes as a way to develop characters. For example, a main character meets someone wearing an Indigo t-shirt and she is a lesbian. Shortcuts like this happened all the…
Couldn’t put it down I spent all of Easter on my porch reading this book. I couldn’t wait to find out what happened next. I am usually pretty good with predicting plots as I read, and still had so many surprises in this one. I identified with the characters on many levels and felt a connection to them. My first by this author and definitely not my last.
“It can’t be that obvious!” I enjoyed this read. It was a pleasant diversion. I kept reading, because I figured out what was really going on about 1/3 of the way through the book, but thought “It can’t be that obvious!” And kept reading in hopes of proving myself wrong. I am not a genius, so it must have been that obvious, because I read all the way to the end to discover that “I had that.” And was sorta disappointed.